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So this is my first year of growing stuff, and one of the things i've found bewildering is crop rotation. I'm using a four bed system, I have a brassica bed, a legumes bed, a tomatoes (etc) bed and then a roots and onions bed.
The thing is i'm not sure when you should rotate. This mainly, in fact almost entirely applies to the roots and onions bed, I'm finding it tricky squeezing all these crops into one bed and especially when they're often quite speedy -like nantes carrots.
What I did this summer for instance was planted autumn carrots in the place were the shallots had been in about July and then popped salad onions in after the summer carrots.
Not sure quite how I managed to avoid carrot fly -my attempt at a barrier was pants, but I did.
Would be interested to know what everyone else does, do most people sow one crop in one place for the year and then leave the soil to recover until next year?
thanks!
The thing is i'm not sure when you should rotate. This mainly, in fact almost entirely applies to the roots and onions bed, I'm finding it tricky squeezing all these crops into one bed and especially when they're often quite speedy -like nantes carrots.
What I did this summer for instance was planted autumn carrots in the place were the shallots had been in about July and then popped salad onions in after the summer carrots.
Not sure quite how I managed to avoid carrot fly -my attempt at a barrier was pants, but I did.
Would be interested to know what everyone else does, do most people sow one crop in one place for the year and then leave the soil to recover until next year?
thanks!
) am less keen on roots etc.
I practice true crop rotation and never follow like with like (usually) In annual crop rotation you can follow like with like during a single year. although it seems a bit pointless to me as the second crop of the same family will have to survive on the depleted nutrients that the first crop has taken out and will also suffer from any pest or disease build up from the first crop.
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